AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS,
Percy Bysshe Shelley
AUTHOR OF ENDYMION, HYPERION, ETC.
Aster prin men elampes eni zooisin Eoos
nun de thanon lampeis Esperos en phthimenois.—PLATO.
[“Adonais” was composed at Pisa during the early days of June, 1821,
and printed, with the author’s name, at Pisa, ‘with the types of
Didot,’ by July 13, 1821. Part of the impression was sent to the
brothers Ollier for sale in London. An exact reprint of this Pisa
edition (a few typographical errors only being corrected) was issued
in 1829 by Gee & Bridges, Cambridge, at the instance of Arthur Hallam
and Richard Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton). The poem was included in
Galignani’s edition of “Coleridge, Shelley and Keats”, Paris, 1829,
and by Mrs. Shelley in the “Poetical Works” of 1839. Mrs. Shelley’s
text presents three important variations from that of the editio
princeps. In 1876 an edition of the “Adonais”, with Introduction and
Notes, was printed for private circulation by Mr. H. Buxton Forman,